Definition of Coude telescope

1. Noun. A reflecting telescope so constructed that the light is led to a plate holder or spectrograph.

Exact synonyms: Coude System
Generic synonyms: Reflecting Telescope, Reflector

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coude Telescope

couchees
coucher
couchers
couches
couchette
couchettes
couching
couching needle
couchings
couchless
couchlike
couchside
coude
coude system
coude telescope (current term)
coudee
coudees
cougarlike
cougars
cough
cough drop
cough fracture
cough mixture
cough mixtures
cough out

Literary usage of Coude telescope

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1890)
"In considering the relative advantages of the coude telescope as described by M. Loewy, and such a form as this, it must at once be admitted that there is a ..."

2. Determination of Stellar Parallax by Henry Norris Russell (1911)
"The photographs were taken with the Sheepshanks Equatorial of the Cambridge Observatory, a coude telescope of the polar ..."

3. Jewish Achievement by Mendel Silber (1910)
"... Maurice Loewy, the director of the Paris observatory and the inventor of the universally employed "coude" telescope, Ilia S. Abelmann, whose works are ..."

4. Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes by George Gabriel Stokes (1907)
"coude telescope, 204. Crookes, Sir W., on viscosity of rarefied gas, 236; importance of his work, 353. Cyclopaedia, English, contributions to, 154. ..."

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